J Gresham Machen – God’s Champion

My, how time flies. I should have posted this a lot sooner. Apologies for not doing so,  but here it is. Geoff Thomas came to Bulkington Congregational Church a couple of weeks ago to deliver a lecture on J Gresham Machen – God’s Champion. With many of the folks at the lecture I had very little – next to nothing actually – knowledge of this man of God. It’s always interesting to hear how these men are prepared, prior to the work God has for them. In part Machen was prepared for battle intellectually in Germany and emotionally in the trenches of WWW1 as a medical orderly as his conscience would not allow him to kill possible German friends from his days of study.

The lecture was delivered in only the way Geoff can, it was warm and real. It was also good to see the balcony being used again and to see the folks at Bulkington encouraged.

What struck me in the lecture from the life of Machen was the encouragement to stand firm in the fight in our own day. This to me is a large part of what the lectures are about. J Gresham Machen is a great example and encouragement to stand firm even when it looks as though the cause of truth is falling in the streets. God is with His church. Download, listen, enjoy, be encouraged!

The Lecture is available from the usual two sources: Bulkington Congregational Church & My Website. Bulkington describe the lecture as ‘J. Gresham Machen: His life, times, and stand against liberalism and modernism’. Exactly so.

2 thoughts on “J Gresham Machen – God’s Champion

  1. Machen is a personal hero of mine. He is someone that I have the highest admiration…from speaking against Modernism, his defense of Paul, the Virgin birth, the pioneer of the philosophy of Christian Education, founder of OPC and The Westminster’s Theological Seminary. That’s alot of accomplishment in my book! In addition, I think we would not know about Van Til if it was not for Machen pushing for Van Til to be on faculty with WTS.

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